Must be lonely to be an ice cream:

And you get ignored:

And ultimately, you get eaten.  See, I told you.  Life as ice cream is sad….

I couldn’t think of a better title for this photo:

I love these kinds of dogs because when you look at them you just think — oh my god, it is just all kinds of wrong.  The ears are too big, the feet are too big, the face, oh the face, but all together it is all right:

Don’t they?:

I mean for these guys.  And me, kind of.  I have business in downtown Boston most Saturday, so after I am done, I stick around and just walk around with the picture making machine.

I don’t do flips over multiple numbers of people at work, although at other jobs I had it felt like I was doing this everyday:

I always like these kinds of guys.  I like that they do these great feats, that they perform so well in front of people and their general happiness.  And of course that they give me these kinds of photos:

And being a gymnastics fan, I thought this was amazing:

And here they look like Olympic sprinters at the starting line:

Thank you street performers for making my trip to Downtown Crossing just that much more interesting.

Do not adjust your screen because I already adjusted the colors on these:

A really big view:

Stop being so interesting.  I go to work, then I go out and use the picture taking machine.  Even when I don’t have my camera I am always struck my the number of interesting people milling around the middle of town.  Today I had the picture taking machine with me, so I could capture them:

Three blocks from my job.  Downtown Crossing, don’t ever change.

No matter what this was, I was going to go over and photograph it.  Well, let’s get to the first photo:

Oh that is pretty close to perfect, I’ll say.  There will be an entire story about who these people are, but for now, all you get to know is that this was a troupe of street performers in my beloved Downtown Crossing.  Like I said, they were street performers and there will be an entry but something about their bodies reminded me of Leni Riefenstahl’s photos of the Nuba people of Sudan.  Please do not send me mails about how I am a racist or how I am equating someone as controversial as Leni Riefenstahl with something like this.  I liked the content and I wanted to reproduce it.  Maybe one day I will travel to Sudan, but for now I have these charming boys from Downtown Crossing.

In the photo above, the man is actually posing for me.  I kind of like that actually because I feel like people feel comfortable around me with my camera.  These guys are street performers, so they are super charmers, the one above included.  These next two, in my humble opinion are some of the best people photos I have ever taken.  I was going to title this “I got a shoot with Sports Illustrated” because of their quality:

I’d like to take this moment to emphasize how difficult it was to take these photos.  These guys weren’t exactly standing still.  All I thought was “just don’t put the camera down and don’t take your finger off the shutter.”  I guess all in all it did work.  Let’s take a look at the rest.  Just a slight warning.  There are repeated photos of the same guy in here a couple of times because, well, I thought he was very handsome.  I am nothing if not shallow and predictable.  Here goes:

Eh.  Just kidding.  This is from a long ago trip to Madame Tussard’s wax museum.  I just decided it was time to put up these photos anyway.  Some of them are extremely funny:

Others are just regular celebrity portraits that I couldn’t get in a million years even if I tried really hard: